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It is clear that the camps are targets of the occupation forces. (Quote by - Said Siam)

In this regard, we would like to note that, according to international law, full responsibility for taking care of Iraqis' humanitarian needs rests first and foremost with the occupation authorities, (Quote by - Alexander Yakovenko)

Restoration of sovereignty has been the overriding concern of Indonesia from the very first day the occupation began, ... We need to observe how things materialize on the ground. (Quote by - Marty Natalegawa)

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. (Quote by - August Strindberg)

The incident at the Mustafa mosque was very painful to us, and reminded us of other assaults of the occupation. This incident was not the first, and will not be the last. (Quote by - Muqtada al-Sadr)

There should be no one that died because this war shouldn't have happened and more killing and more death is not helping anything. The occupation of Iraq right now by the U.S. is the problem, it's not the solution. (Quote by - Nancy Lessin)

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft. (Quote by - Herbert Gold)

ISM believes that the occupation can end through popular, peaceful protests that comply with international law for the protection of civilians. (Quote by - Patrick O'Connor)

The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation. (Quote by - James Dobbins)

There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue. (Quote by - Khaled Meshaal)

Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme. (Quote by - William Cowper)

Two and a half years on, we must begin to bring this occupation to an end. (Quote by - Sir Menzies Campbell)

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. (Quote by - Henry R. Luce)

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. (Quote by - Frank Moore Colby)

We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began. (Quote by - Khaled Mashaal)

Fishing is already the world's most hazardous occupation, and working at sea in a sub-standard boat is doubly dangerous. (Quote by - Jeremy Turner)

Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation. (Quote by - Robert Pape)

We have a country plagued by kidnapping, by political killings, under foreign occupation. Setting an election as a priority is missing the mark. (Quote by - Jean-Robert Lafortune)

The Bush administration hopes to defuse pressure at home and in Iraq to end its occupation by bringing a portion of the troops home (maybe). But withdrawing some troops is completely unacceptable. (Quote by - Leslie Cagan)

If the United Nations does not take over the situation and there is not a rethinking of this chaotic occupation we are living through, in which there are more dead in the occupation than in the war phase, the Spanish troops are going to return to Spain (Quote by - Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero)

Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better (Quote by - Robert Half)

Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is. (Quote by - Khaled Meshaal)

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